The LORD Has Chosen Zion

Summary

Podcast Summary: Gilbert House Fellowship – "The LORD Has Chosen Zion" (May 17, 2026)

Overview

In this episode of Gilbert House Fellowship, Derek and Sharon Gilbert pause their chronological journey through Isaiah to "flashback" and cover several Psalms they previously missed: Psalms 100, 101, 105, and 132. With their signature blend of scholarship, warmth, and conversational humor, the Gilberts explore the spiritual significance of these Psalms—centered on worship, the covenants, God's throne and presence, and prophetic glimpses of Christ's reign from Zion. They interweave historical context, Hebrew insights, and personal anecdotes, encouraging listeners to see both the ancient and present relevance of God's faithfulness to His people. The episode also includes a health update, book and conference recommendations, reflections on Israel and the Middle East, and a thoughtful Q&A on God and "evil spirits".

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Psalms Missed: Context and Structure

• Why the Flashback?
  Due to a listener's astute observation (thank you, Karen!), the Gilberts realized they’d omitted Psalms 100, 101, 105, and 132, which fit historically after David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem ([09:01]).
• Reading in Chronological Order:
  Their verse-by-verse study skips around the Old Testament to follow a chronological, not canonical, timeline—placing Psalms amid narratives in Samuel and Chronicles ([07:49]).

2. Psalm 100: Joyful Noise and The Throne of God

• Historical Setting:
  Composed as David brings the Ark to Jerusalem—a scene of national joy and spiritual significance ([10:07]).
• Hebrew Nuances:
  Sharon unpacks the term "joyful noise" ("ruah"), which connotes not just joy but also war cries, shouts of victory, and deep spiritual resonance ([13:29]).

  "Make a joyful noise to Yahweh all the earth...The actual Hebrew for joyful noise is ruah...It can be a war cry, a sound signaling a march, a shout of triumph, or religious impulse." —Sharon ([13:29])

• Prophetic Layer:
  Derek links the Psalm to the idea of God’s throne returning to its rightful home in Jerusalem—a foreshadowing of Christ’s reign:

  "This is David bringing that throne to Jerusalem, but actually returning it to Jerusalem...Eden was at Jerusalem." —Derek ([16:11], [16:34])

• Theological Depths:
  • God’s throne is accessible, unlike remote pagan sacred mountains.
  • Invitations for all to approach with joyful worship ([22:41], [26:09]).
  • “Steadfast love” (chesed) as God’s unbreakable covenant faithfulness ([21:21], [27:15]).

3. Psalm 101: The Integrity of the King

• David’s Yearnings and Human Failings:
  The Psalm reveals David's striving for blamelessness, a heart yearning for God’s presence, and the reality of his (and his house’s) imperfection ([29:59], [33:38]).
  • Discussion of the Hebrew Belial ("worthless/evil") and connections to New Testament spiritual concepts ([32:46]).

  “David is the prototype of our final king, our true king Yeshua...It’s almost like David is trying to aspire to that perfection. That’s really difficult...especially for a king with eight wives.” —Sharon ([37:36])

4. Psalm 105: God’s Faithfulness Through History

• Covenant Survey:
  The Gilberts walk through God’s covenants with Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Israel, David, leading up to the New Covenant in Christ ([47:38]-[51:46]).
  • Emphasizes unconditional vs. conditional covenants, and Israel’s unique place in God’s plan—even into modern times ([49:25]).
• Exodus Miracles and Spiritual Warfare:
  The Psalm recounts God’s mighty works in Egypt, each plague a polemic against specific pagan deities and spiritual powers ([55:39]).

  “He’s showing that he controls all of these elements...these are entities...He’s shaming all of these entities.” —Sharon ([55:51])

5. Psalm 132: Zion, God's Chosen Dwelling

• Prophetic and Eschatological Meanings:
  • The Psalm describes David’s longing to create a “resting place” for God, identifying Jerusalem (Zion) as God’s eternal dwelling ([58:38]).

  “For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his dwelling place. This is my resting place forever.” —Sharon (reading Psalm, [63:53])

• Messianic Kingship:
  • The prophecy that a "horn will sprout for David" finds its fulfillment in Jesus, not as a political ruler then, but as eternal King ([65:01]).

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On approaching God:

  “You and I could not simply walk into the court of King Charles III...We can, however, approach the throne of our Creator...We are actually part of His divine assembly.” —Sharon ([22:54])

• On the geography of sacred space:

  “The Temple Mount is on...not the highest hill in the area. When you look at pagan mountains, like Mount Hermon—remote...God wants us to approach.” —Derek ([25:08])

• On the cycles of Redemptive History:

  “Out, back, out...Things just recapitulate, or as Doug Van Dorn wrote, the Rings of Revelation.” —Derek ([19:04])

• On Prophecy and Uncertainty:

  “It seems the Lord...is outmaneuvering the fallen realm again and again...What seems ambiguous in the Bible is intentionally obscure.” —Sharon ([67:08])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [09:09] — Discovery of the missed Psalms and their historical placement
• [13:29] — Hebrew meaning of “joyful noise”
• [16:33] — God’s throne returns to Jerusalem, Eden parallels
• [22:41] — Sabbath worship and access to the divine King
• [27:15] — “Chesed”: steadfast love and covenant faith
• [32:46] — Belial and falling away, spiritual apostasy
• [47:38]-[51:46] — Explaining God’s covenants and unconditional promises
• [55:39] — God’s sovereignty over spiritual enemies in the Exodus
• [58:38] — Psalm 132: Zion as God’s Chosen Dwelling
• [63:53] — Messianic prophecy and the eternal reign of Christ
• [67:08] — Discerning prophecy, charts, and the Lord’s sovereign strategies
• [68:27] — Modern Israel, Abraham Accords, and shifting Middle East alliances
• [79:56] — Listener Q&A: Does God send evil spirits? (1 Samuel 16:14)
• [104:00] — Closing prayer

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Other Memorable Elements

• Personal Updates & Community:
  • Health journeys, weight loss (early segment), and Derek’s ongoing medical updates ([02:02], [76:36]).
  • "Thank you for all those suggestions...We actually eat pretty healthy overall." —Sharon ([03:17])
• Encouragement for Listeners:
  • Assurance of singing and joy in the age to come, for all believers ([29:11]).
  • "You may not be able to sing now, but I guarantee you will have a magnificent voice.” —Sharon ([29:48])
• Practical Theology Tip:
  • On prayer: “Pray without ceasing doesn’t mean being on your knees 24/7. It means understand you are never alone.” —Sharon ([45:14])

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Appendix: Study Resources Highlighted

• Books on the Septuagint and Bible Textual History
  • Rebooting the Bible (Doug Woodward) ([39:49])
  • Battle for the Bible’s Truth (Doug Van Dorn) ([40:00])
• Conference and Israel Trip Information:
  • GoThereForConference.com (July in Ohio)
  • Remnant Rising 2.0 (August, Springfield, MO)
  • Israel Tour (October, info throughout [92:44]-[94:54])

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Listener Q&A Highlight

Q: Why would God send an "evil spirit" on Saul (1 Samuel 16:14)?
A:

• The Hebrew term can mean “harmful” or “injurious,” not necessarily “evil” in a moral sense ([80:58]).
• The incident points to God’s sovereignty in using spiritual agents for His plans—here, to bring David into Saul’s court, as part of God’s unfolding plan for Israel ([83:40]).

  “The spirit was not evil in and of itself, but God tormented Saul, which then compelled him to bring David to court, which was God’s plan.” —Derek ([84:20])

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Tone and Style

This episode is warmly conversational, blending deep study, lived experience, and a spirit of encouragement. Sharon and Derek balance detailed biblical exegesis with plainspoken faith, humor, and honesty about life’s challenges. Their approachability and consistent return to God’s sovereignty and love make this episode both accessible and spiritually nourishing for believers at any stage.

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Transcript

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Foreign.

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The beautiful Missouri Ozarks. Greetings. Welcome to the Gilbert House fellowship for Sunday, May 17, 2026. I'm Derek Gilbert.

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I am Sharon Gilbert. And we're delighted to have you with us in our home today. And if you are brand new to the study, we encourage you to download. Well, regardless, we encourage you to download our free app and you can listen to all of the study studies that go back to 2014.

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Right. We've been through, well, I think on the app. I just started with our second trip through the Bible which began around 2019.

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Yeah.

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So but we do if you go to the website gilberthouse.org then you will find all of those going all the way back to 2014.

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So in five years we managed to go through both the Old Testament and New Testament and we thought we were really taking our time. However, in seven years we've only made it partway through the old.

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That's right. We're up through the book of Isaiah except today. And we'll talk about this in a moment.

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We're going back in time.

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Yes, flashback. But Gilberthouse.org is where you'll find the app not only for mobile devices, but also for smart TVs and set top boxes like Roku Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. You'll find those in the App Store. That's right. For your device, the Gilbert House Ministries app or ghtv, the logo says. And add that you'll get on the big screen. Then the video content that we've produced over the years like Unraveling Revelations, Sci Friday, the Bible's greatest mysteries and and ongoing the I at some point return to the Armored sheep. View from the Bunker is still continuing and we'll talk about tonight's episode, which will be a very important one, later in the study.

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You know, the fun thing about those old episodes of Sci Friday is you can watch us literally change over the years. Beginning in late 2015, I started trying to eat healthier and I just started by drinking more water and trying to reduce the amount of white products like white rice, white potatoes and sugar, which is white. And over time, in the course of a year, I lost about £120 and I've kept it off since, so. And Derek has lost weight. Well, recently he's losing weight because of health issues, but originally he just started eating what I was eating.

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Yeah, but I'm down every bit of £50 from where I was at my heaviest. So you go back and you look at some of the early programs on CY Friday and you'll see the two of us together, about 170 pounds more of us than there is today.

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An entire person is missing now.

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Yep. So. And yeah, it's almost my current body weight. As of this morning, I'm about 184.

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That's a lot of weight. And I'll tell you that. You know, just sort of sticking with that health thing for a minute. Many of you have been very kind in offering suggestions to Derek regarding his health journey.

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And we're, you know, just following the shepherd to see where he leads each day. But many of you have suggested nutritional supplements, changes in the way we eat. Derek and I actually eat pretty healthy overall. We hardly ever go to restaurants. And I cook.

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I love to cook. And so a typical breakfast will be

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bacon and eggs, an omelette that has spinach in it and cheese and lots of peppers because they have tons nutrients in them. Derek doesn't quite deal with hot food the way I do. For instance, I smother my eggs in sriracha sauce. Yeah, not so much with Derek. He might choose a few little drops here and there.

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It's really tasty. But, you know, for me it's more like a chemical burn when I put the amount that you use.

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Yeah.

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But we want to thank you for all of those suggestions. If you looked in our, I guess used to be called a medicine cabinet, but it's actually the linen cupboard in

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our bathroom has been converted into a medicine chest.

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Yeah. It is filled with a lot of nutraceuticals.

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We do supplement a lot. And we started this really back in early 2020 when news of COVID 19 came out and we started doing some reading and research. And of course, that's really your forte. And saw that vitamins C, D and then zinc were key. Most of us Americans are deficient in vitamin D. It's a cheap supplement.

[C]

It's very inexpensive, but you can just walk outside in the sun and make it naturally.

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Yeah, yeah. And, you know, obviously for us northern Europe people of northern European descent is a little easier than, you know, for people maybe from some other backgrounds. Yeah. But, you know, worst come to worst. I mean, even in the winter months, those little vitamin D capsules cost very little. Supplementing with vitamin D is very, very important.

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Even the higher grade ones. In fact, I think Eden's Essentials has vitamin D. Yeah.

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Eden's Essentials, which is Joe Horn's company that is affiliated with, you know, Skywatch TV and Defender Publishing, is all part of the same family, as it were.

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Also getting your trace minerals, you can get Those. There are some wonderful salts out there that you can get. Eden's Essentials has a great pink salt and it's very healthy for you. Has lots of nutrients in it.

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Minerals. Magnesium is one that's important. And most Americans are deficient in magnesium too, which helps with a lot of you.

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And I get those tests once a year to see what my metabolic panel looks like. And that includes all the minerals and all that kind of stuff. For the most part, I'm just right in there. Yep, very healthy.

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So.

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Which I thank the Lord for.

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But again, thank you very much for your. Your suggestions. In case you're wondering. No, we did not take the jab. Neither of us.

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But we did both have. Have it.

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We. We. Yeah, we both had Covid back in early. Of early 23.

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Yeah, it was in the fall.

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Yeah, you're right. It was in the fall of 22, right?

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Yes. You had fallen back from the conference with Elie Marzulli.

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Right. In Yuba City.

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And he got sick. And then you and I both got sick.

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Right. Had Covid at the same time. And what I'm dealing with may be a consequence of long Covid. There may be a genetic component here. We'll talk more about that at the end of the study in the OG report and get to tell you about my new adventure tomorrow. So, looking forward to getting some more answers.

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Being OGs, we occasionally sort of miss something and that includes chapters of the Bible.

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Yeah. Well, we'll open with a word of prayer and then we'll dive into these chapters that explain why we're doing a flashback today. Father, thank you for your word and bringing us together over it, Lord, as we study today, we just ask you to open our minds and our hearts to your word that we would help. That you would help us to see the world through the eyes of your prophets, your apostles. Understand what the word meant to them 3,000 years ago, Father, and what it means for us then. Today we ask this in Jesus name. Amen.

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Amen.

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A very kind and obviously very detail oriented listener, Karen. Thank you so much, Karen. Yes. And she is going to be coming with us to Israel in October. We'll talk about that at the university. Yeah. She pointed out that we had missed a few psalms as we were going through this time. As you know, if you've been with us for a while, if not, if you're new to us, we go through the Bible in chronological order. So we're not reading Genesis 1 through Revelation 22 in that sequence. Sometimes we jump between, say, 1st and 2nd Samuel and 1st and 2nd Chronicles, then Psalms and Proverbs, because we're reading them in the order in which they occurred. And while we were going through the life of David around the time of 2 Samuel, 6 or 1 Chronicles, I think it was 1 Chronicles, we missed a few Psalms, and she picked up on it. Probably what happened was we went through more slowly and I forgot to update the calendar.

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Yes, that would be my guess.

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Skipped right over four Psalms. Psalms 100, 101, 105, and 132.

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And they're great psalms.

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They are. And so we are now flashing back about 250 years from where we left off in the book of Isaiah in the late 8th century BC we're getting around 700 BC in that time. Not quite. We hadn't quite got yet, to the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. so now we got to back up 250 years to the time of David again and cover these psalms.

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We'll jump into the time shed.

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Yes. A BRAC reference, and pick up the psalms that we missed so that we don't leave any books of the Bible with missing chapters here as we go through this study. So Psalm 100 is where we pick up today. And to timestamp this. This came right after David brought the Ark of the Covenant from where it was being held. Kirioth.

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Oh, that's right. Yeah.

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To Jerusalem and placed it in a tent there. In Jerusalem. So there was a lot of celebrating going on and David singing to.

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To the Lord and embarrassing Michael.

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Yeah. His wife. First wife from Saul's daughter. Yeah. And she suddenly became the lowest wife on the list at that point, even though he didn't have any others. Okay, your. Your like, wife Z, didn't she have two.

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Didn't he have two others by then?

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Well, yes, he would have. Wouldn't. He would have had Abigail and then.

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Oh, gosh, what was her name?

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Yeah, there was one other at that point.

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Yeah, I'll look it up.

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Okay. But this, again, in the timing of things would follow that those events where the ark was brought up to the city of Jerusalem.

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David had eight wives.

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Michal or Michael.

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Abigail.

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Okay.

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Avital, Egla and Bathsheba.

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Yeah, Bathsheba was the last of the. The eight and the favorite of the eight, apparently. But by this point, I think he would have just had the first three.

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He also apparently had some concubines, but, you know, we won't count them.

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They don't warrant a mention.

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I guess not.

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They only get Mentioned in the story later, when Absalom puts the tent up on the roof so that everybody can see. Oh, there goes Absalom again.

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Yep, I'm the new king.

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Yeah. The old man can't stop me. All right. Psalm 100, a Psalm for giving thanks. This. Yeah. Follows the events of. They kept it at the. Was it oved. And I can't think of the rest of the name of the fellow Oved. Idam, I think was the name of the fellow who.

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Oh. Who was looking after it.

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Looking after it for a while because it tipped on the back of a cart and one of the Levites put out his hands to steady it and they were struck dead. So David's like, we can't have that in Jerusalem. And after a while he finally realized, okay, it was because we didn't show it the proper reverence and respect that the ark struck down the attendant there.

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Can we just really briefly, for those who maybe are new, the Ark of the covenant represents the throne of God.

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Yeah, yeah. I know in Indiana Jones and the.

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It's not a radio to God, right.

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Yeah. It was. Was not some supernatural thing to communicate with the spirit realm. It literally was where God was enthroned on earth. And if you're going to treat it with that kind of disrespect, put it on the back of an ox cart instead of carrying it on the poles like we're supposed to.

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Exactly.

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That's the reason for it. You wouldn't treat. You were not treating the throne of God with the respect that it was due. Psalm 100. A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to Yahweh all the earth.

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Can we stop there for a second? The actual Hebrew for joyful noise is ruah. And it.

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If I can find it again,

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here it is.

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Yeah.

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Ruah transliterated R, U A or rua. It can be a number of things depending upon the context and the tense of the verb and the mood of the verb. There are all these little. If you studied the old fashioned diagram, this sentence, that kind of thing. It can be a war cry. It can be a sound signaling a war or march.

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It can also be a shout of

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triumph over your enemies, a shout in

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applause,

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religious impulse shout or a distress shout. Or if it's a different. In his Poel, it's shouting in triumph

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or shouting for joy.

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In this case it is probably shouting

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for joy, but it has all of these other

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nuances within the word.

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Give a blast with a clarion or horn.

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Yeah. Or ear splitting noise. This is in some way, if you look at the context, make a joyful noise to Yahweh. All the earth. All the earth, the entire globe, worshiping the Lord, not just those in Jerusalem.

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This is all.

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All Aretes. So I asked you earlier if this is all the earth doing this? Is this explosive, practically worship session? Is this for our own enjoyment? Absolutely. Is this praise to the Lord? Absolutely. But at what point does this take place? Remember, this is David writing this in the time that all the earth wouldn't have been doing this.

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No, true.

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But all Aretes can also include the underworld.

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Yeah. Eretz means above and below. Just as ancient Sumerian, the word kur means mountains, but also netherworld. So that was an interesting concept that they had that it would meant the earth above but also the earth below.

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Is this prophetic?

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It can be, yeah. Because what you're seeing is God's throne. God's throne being brought into Jerusalem. And as we'll see when we get to Psalm 132 today, assuming we get that far, we will see that that is where he intends to dwell forever.

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Yes.

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So this is David bringing that throne to Jerusalem, but actually returning it to Jerusalem. Because as we wrote in the book Veneration, as Carl Gallups wrote in the book Gods of Ground Zero, Eden was at Jerusalem.

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You know, it's very interesting that you mentioned this is the return of God's

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throne, Return of the king.

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Yes, exactly. It's the return of the king. The king had been expelled, he'd been removed from Jerusalem. And of course, the Lord is everywhere. But if this is a picture of our true king, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ, then this could be a picture of his return, which could be very soon.

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Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting. It adds another layer to this idea of going out from Jerusalem and returning. Okay, you had Eden, the original garden, the expulsion from Eden, and also the rebellion not just by Adam and Eve, but also by the fallen realm, expulsion, going out into the earth. Okay, take dominion of the earth, the fallen realm, landing at Mount Hermon, and the rebellion there. You had David then bringing the throne of God back to Jerusalem. The expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, which was God's punishment on the people of Judah for not living up to their covenant. We'll talk about covenants today as well. And being sent out into the world. Jesus, who begins his ministry in Galilee of the Gentiles, north of the Sea of Galilee, making his way to Jerusalem to fulfill his mission, Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit descends on the apostles, then sending the Gospel out to the world, and then ultimately the world coming to Jerusalem for that final battle, Armageddon, and then God manifesting on the battlefield so the world will know I am the Holy One in Israel, you know, out, back, out. And this is one I hadn't thought of before, as I was thinking of that pattern, which I'll probably write into the introduction for book two of War of the Watchers. The idea that things just recapitulate, or as Doug Van Dorn wrote, the Rings of Revelation.

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Yes.

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Things happening in patterns, cycles, from out to in, out, and then in to out and then out to in again. It's. Boy, really remarkable. I hadn't thought about that until just now. You know, if you think bringing the throne back to.

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I know. Isn't that wonderful? All the earth, all the earth above

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and below Make a joyful noise to Yahweh. All the earth serve Yahweh with gladness. And that word, serve can also mean worship.

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Yes.

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So it doesn't mean, okay, you're working for him. It also means worship him, come into his presence with singing.

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I love that.

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Yeah. Looking forward to that restored voice.

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So, you know, Psalm 150, there's sort of another picture of that, the worship aspect of being in the presence of

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the lord in Hebrews 2, where worship

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him with the timberland dance.

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Yes. Yes.

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It's the very thing that. That David did when he brought the ark back into Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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He was dancing. Yes. Dancing is okay. You know, I grew up in a Baptist church, and you can tap one foot, but if you dare to tap the second one, you're dancing. That's an old joke.

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The joy that is described in these verses and in Psalm 150 is almost impossible to imagine. And a bit overwhelming when you start really thinking about it. Verse 3 here. Know that he is Yahweh. He is God. It is he who made us, and we are His. Now, there are two ways of interpreting that verse.

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I'll read it in the Septuagint in a minute.

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Go ahead, go ahead.

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Well, it says in the Septuagint, know that Yahweh, he is God. He made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

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Yeah. The ESV renders that third line exactly the same way. We are his people and sheep of his pasture, and not we ourselves. This according to the new English translation, translators basically says, because there is a word in there that sounds identical, the translation reads, he made us, and we belong to Him. That's how they render it. But the consonantal text, which is the Hebrew, he made us and not we ourselves. In other words, we didn't make us.

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Yeah. Which is a poke in the eye to all you evolutionists.

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Right. And the reason there are two transhumanists. Yeah, exactly. We will not overcome death through science.

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Yeah. Bottom line, get your own dirt.

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The reason there are the two alternate translations here is because there's a word in there, essentially, that sounds identical to another word. So you can go with the translation that the ESV the Net Bible opted for as their first choice. And we are His. But. But clearly the Septuagint translators, the Jewish scholars who translated this in the third century BC, saw it the other way. It is he who made us and not we ourselves. Either way, the sentence works.

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Yeah.

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Verse 4. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name.

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Oh, you know, there's so much in there. First of all, what really struck me,

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and I told you that this morning, is you and I could not simply walk into the court of King Charles III and expect to stand before his throne and have a conversation. We can, however, approach the throne of our creator, of our Savior, our king. And we are welcome. Not only are we welcome, we're actually part of his divine assembly.

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Right.

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We have. We have a position of importance. We're given crowns. Of course. We give them back to him because they actually belong to him.

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They belong to him. Right.

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He graciously shares his throne with us.

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Interesting, because that idea of giving crowns back to the ruler was actually a practice in the Roman era, in the first century. Which is when Paul would have written about this.

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Exactly.

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He would have known that.

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So a client king approaching the emperor in Rome would hand his crown to the emperor, showing that this actually belongs to you. But Paul, under divine revelation, saying, a similar thing will happen when we receive our rewards in heaven and then we will return those crowns to him because they actually belong to Him.

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Wow.

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The other thing I think is significant, we've noticed this on our tours of Israel. When we went to Shiloh, it struck me. But it's also very evident when you're in Jerusalem and you're looking down on the Temple Mount at Shiloh, you look at the location of the tabernacle, Dr. Scott Stripling has found where the tabernacle stood for 300 years. He has positively identified it. And I think he makes. And he's found an excellent case.

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I think he's now found all four, but he's found at least three. Three of the horns of the altar.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They're in, it's, it's in pieces, but he's found them.

[B]

Right. The point is that the location of the Tabernacle in Shiloh, just as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is on. What is not even. It's, it's not on the highest hill in that area. The hills around the location of the Tabernacle in Shiloh and the hills of Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, the, the western hill, Mount Scopus, Mount Herzl, they're all taller than the Temple Mount. You look down onto it. When you look at the locations of the sacred mountains of the pagans from the ancient world, like Mount Hermon, 9,000ft, three times taller than any other mountain in Israel. Mount Zaphon, which was the mountain sacred to Baal in southern Turkey, that's like, you know, 5,200ft. It's a mile high. Basically. Those mountains are remote and inaccessible and even dangerous. To get to Mount Ramon, you can only get to it like two or three months out of the year. I mean, back in the day when you're marching up there with sandals on.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The peak is almost always covered in snow.

[B]

But not Mount Zion. Not the Temple Mount.

[C]

No, no. It. It's like having a natural amphitheater.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Around the throne of God.

[B]

Yeah. That is the difference. God wants us to approach verse 5. For Yahweh is good. His steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. And that phrase, steadfast love is the Hebrew term we've discussed previously. Chesed, I think that's right. Which implies not only is his love steadfast, but he can be relied upon to fulfill his promises. He will not break his promises. Sometimes it's translated as loving kindness. Various other words that are used throughout scripture. But when you see that in the esv anyway, steadfast love, chesed, that is a promise that what God. Not only a promise, it's a guarantee that what God has promised, he will fulfill.

[C]

And the. The next Psalm 101, if we're done with 100, sort of continues upon that theme. A psalm of David. I will sing of steadfast love and justice to you, O Yahweh. I will make music. I think there's going to be a whole lot of music during the millennial reign and during our eternal life with our Lord.

[B]

I'm looking forward to that. Me too. And I'm pretty sure it's mostly a acapella, four part harmony. Wearing little boater hats or gospel quartets. Those are pretty good, too.

[C]

Those are really great, too. But you and I have had the honor of singing in very large choirs, you know, thousands of people in some cases. And that massive sound of harmony is. Has an effect on your nervous system.

[B]

It does.

[C]

That you cannot describe. And it's more than hearing it, it's producing it.

[B]

And I can speak to this as you know, from the standpoint of a barbershop quartet singer. When you ring those chords, it becomes addictive. And there are some guys who. And I was one of them, which is why I've not participated since we moved here to the Ozarks. Because anything I really love doing, I do full on. And when you're trying to do two things full on, okay, you've got 100%, you can't do 200%. So something's got to give. And back in Illinois, it was kind of getting in the way of doing what we're doing.

[C]

Family stuff and. Family stuff. Yeah.

[B]

So anyway. But it is addictive. It does have an effect on your nervous system.

[C]

Well, I used to sing opera.

[A]

And while I.

[C]

The Lord has given me a different

[A]

kind of voice these days, I can still sort of sing, but not opera. But when you sing that way, when you produce that sort of sound with your body, the entire body vibrates. And it is a sensation that I miss. I can't produce that sound anymore, but I will be able to one day. And new body. That new body, as with yours, you who are listening, you're going to be singing. You may not be able to sing now, but I guarantee you will have a magnificent voice.

[B]

Just wait.

[A]

That day is coming I will sing of steadfast love and justice to you O Yahweh I will make music verse 2.

[C]

I will ponder the way that is

[A]

blameless oh, when will you come to me? Now, that's interesting. David was going through, what, at the time of Psalm 111?

[B]

Well, this would have been a time of triumph, though, because again, this followed the return, or rather the arrival of the Ark in Jerusalem. It had never been in Jerusalem to this point. The Ark had followed the Israelites from Egypt through the sojourn for 40 years, crossed over, followed them to Mount Geretzim, Mount Ebal there at Shechem, and then was moved to Shiloh. Interesting bit of history here. For a quick side note, the Samaritans believe that Eli, who was the one who trained up the prophet Samuel, illegally moved the Tabernacle and the Ark to Shiloh, caused A split between the tribes of Israel and that those who remained behind at Shechem are the true descendants of the tribes who accurately preserved the teachings of Moses. And they believe that to this day that the Jews should be worshipping in Mount Gerizim and not on the Temple Mount.

[C]

Yeah, isn't that interesting?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I'd never heard that before until we went to Israel.

[C]

Now we have twice now, I think towards a Samaritan village and their numbers are dwindling. Yeah, but they still about 800. Yeah, it's a very interesting place. They've got a little model of what they believe the temple would have looked like, as I remember, on Mount Gerarity. So if you ever get a chance to go with us to Israel, we'll see if we can add that to the tour list for that year, because we plan on going every year so long as the Lord allows us to have the strength to do it.

[B]

But you know, Back to Psalm 101, it's interesting that that phrase is how long until you be present with me? I know because it reminds me of

[C]

how long, oh Lord, the soul's beneath the altar.

[A]

It's like in the middle of writing this, the Lord David is yearning for a connection. Oh, when will you come to me? And it goes on, I will walk with integrity of heart within my house. Verse 3. I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless.

[B]

And the Hebrew word there, worthless is Belial, which at this point in Israel's history. And again we're in the early 10th century B.C. so somewhere, you know, 9, 89, 79, 90 somewhere B.C. belial was not considered a proper name of an evil spirit of a fallen angel. But by the second Temple period it certainly was. So

[C]

worthless idols, that idea, do you think?

[B]

Well, worthless idols, that term was a different term. That was the El Alim.

[C]

Oh, that's right.

[B]

But again, the content, it's in the same matrix of ideas though, you know, a fallen spirit.

[C]

Well, it's followed up with the next line in verse three. I hate the work of those who fall away. It shall not cling to me. So he's yearning for, I think it seems like to me like he's yearning for a face to face. You know, I realize that you've got throne guardians that are saying, holy, holy, holy. But look, I'm pretty darn, you know, my integrity is there. I've not. It's almost like the rich man who goes to Jesus and says, I've kept all the laws. Yeah, go sell everything you have. Verse 4 A Perverse Heart shall be far from me. I will know nothing of evil.

[B]

By the way, the verse three in the Septuagint is I did not set forth before my eyes a lawless deed. Oh, so that's how they translated Belial.

[C]

But I want to go to the. Let's see.

[B]

And you just read verse four, correct?

[C]

Yeah. Those who fall away. I did. I'm going to go back to that in a second. I just wanted to see what the word there is. Soot. It is

[A]

just falling away.

[C]

Isn't that interesting?

[A]

And I'm trying to see turn aside to anything.

[C]

It just reminds me of what sadly

[A]

I see going on throughout the world right now, that there are those who seem to be falling prey to whispering ideas. And so we're seeing a split within the body of Christ. It's like watching apostasy in real time. And it breaks my heart. And we just need to pray. Jesus himself, one of his final prayers to the Lord, his Father, to, let's face it, to another aspect of the Godhead, communing with him and asking that he would hold us together, that they may be one.

[B]

Yeah, because we are turning on one another and tearing at each other over what should not be something tragedy to divide over.

[A]

So verse four again, if. If I can go on with that. Did you have anything else to say about.

[B]

Not. Not about verse four.

[A]

A perverse heart shall be far from me. I will know nothing of evil.

[B]

The Septuagint renders it evil one, but I think it's referring to an evil. Well, human.

[A]

Well, maybe because in the Lord's Prayer, the deliver us from evil sometimes is translated deliver us from the evil one.

[B]

Well, Brenton, Septuagint renders it, a perverse heart has not cleaved to me. I have not known an evil man for as much as he turns away from me.

[C]

Ah, well. Verse 5. Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not endure. I wonder in a way, because David is the prototype of our final king, our true king Yeshua, his descendant. It's almost like David is trying to aspire to that perfection. That's really difficult to do, especially for a king with eight wives and a

[B]

whole bunch of concubines and ambitious wives and. Or at least some of them were

[C]

clearly ambitious and they would have ambitions for their sons.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Verse 6. I will look with favor on the faithful in the land that they may dwell with me. He who walks in the way, that is blameless shall minister to me again. Some of these statements could be applied to the truly perfect. King David is trying very hard to be that perfection. Yeah, but he's human. Verse 7. No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house. No one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes. Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of Yahweh. This is a bold psalm.

[B]

Yeah, it is. And Septuagint is very similar to that. You know, it's very close. Clearly the understanding was the same by the Septuagint translators. And we'll mention again, if you're new to study the Septuagint, the reason we look at it is because it was translated about 1100 years before the final Hebrew text on which our English Bibles, which are English.

[C]

Babel.

[B]

Our Babels are based. Bibles are based. The Masoretic text was completed by about the year 900 AD and there are some slight variations. We look at the Septuagint just to see what those Jewish scholars leading up to the time of Jesus thought about the Old Testament because they were looking at the Hebrew text available to them.

[C]

Yeah. And we will say again, if you find this topic really interesting and you'd like to know more, do Doug, I can't think of his last name, has two volume.

[A]

Woodward.

[C]

Woodward, thank you very much. Sorry, Doug. Doug Woodward has a two volume set called Rebooting the Bible and it's all about the Septuagint and why it was changed.

[B]

Right. And then there's Doug Van Dorn, which is the confusion here. Wrote the book the Battle for the Bible's Truth which was just out last year and shows how and where things were changed in the second century to de emphasize texts or verses that might point to the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy in the person of Jesus Christ. And some of that, a lot of that has to do actually with Genesis 6, which is interesting. Yeah. Don't want to rabbit trail down that too far.

[C]

No. But if you are interested, honey, could you put a link in the description on YouTube and maybe even on the app. I don't know how you do all this, but it a link to both of those books.

[B]

Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

Are both of those authors, I should say.

[B]

Yeah. You'll find those at Amazon in paperback also Kindle editions and it's really instructive. And we'll say again that this does not mean that the Old Testaments that we have in our Bibles are unreliable. They are not. They are reliable. Texts, no meaningful doctrines have been changed. It's just interesting to see how Jewish scholarship after the second century diverged and de. Emphasized the existence of other entities in the spirit realm. Because Christians were pointing to, for example, the angel of the Lord, the angel of Yahweh, and saying, ah, we know who that is. That was Jesus of Nazareth. Or the existence of, for example, demons in the Old Testament. It was Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the middle second century, after the Bar Kokba rebellion and the final split between Jews and Christians, which got really nasty after about 135ad they wanted to really de. Emphasize anything that Christians could use, but they were constrained by their reverence for the text.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

So they couldn't just flat out make wholesale changes. There are just small tweaks here and there. And again, the reason for the Septuagint references during our study is just. Isn't this interesting? This is what Jewish scholars before the time of Jesus thought about the Old Testament.

[C]

The fact that we have access to it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Means God preserved it. We should at least. Yeah, exactly. The Lord preserved it. So which psalm do we go to next?

[B]

Go to 105. So I get another short one, which is good because this autoimmune thing with my voice makes it harder. No, it's not that short. It's 48 verses. Oh, all right.

[A]

Well, I can read part of it if you want.

[B]

Yeah, we'll dive in here. Psalm 105. There we go. I was looking at. No, yeah, 40. 45 verses. 48 in the Septuagint. That looks like.

[A]

Well, like I said, I can take part of it. Yeah.

[B]

Tell of all his wondrous works. Psalm 105. Oh. Give thanks to Yahweh. Call upon his name. Make known his deeds among the peoples.

[A]

This says, among the heathen.

[B]

Well, yeah. Peoples would probably be. Well, it's Amim. No, it is people. They would have translated it.

[A]

Well, the Masoretic is Amim.

[B]

Yeah. Sing to Him. Sing praises to Him. Tell of all his wondrous works. Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

[A]

Glory in His Hashem.

[B]

Let me see. Yeah. Well, it is Shem. It is not Hashem.

[A]

Well, in his holy name. So what? The reason I'm asking this is because Hashem is one of the powers. It's the second power in heaven. It just means the name.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Which is another way of referring to our Lord and Savior, the King.

[B]

Holy here is Kaj. It's. It's similar To Kadashim, which means holy ones, but it's the same root word, so, you know, let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. Seek Yahweh and His strength. Seek his presence continually.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

In the Septuagint says, seek Yahweh and be strengthened. That's different. Because the more you commune with our Lord, the stronger you get, the bigger your faith.

[B]

Yeah. Net Bibles seek Yahweh and the strength he gives. So that's a little more, I think, in line with the Septuagint. Seek his presence continually. Remember the wondrous works that he has done.

[C]

Sorry to bother you again, but pray without ceasing is what Paul says. Seek his face continually. Pray without ceasing. It doesn't mean that you have to constantly be on your knees praying 24 7. It means understand that you are never alone.

[B]

Never alone.

[C]

Understand that he is with you all the time. The comforter is always here. We are always in the presence of the Lord. I find myself talking to him almost all the time.

[A]

I mean, seriously, about weeding, you know, in our yard and just talking to the Lord, because I know he's there. It's not what you might consider a prayer where you praise and then seek, you know, guidance or ask for something, especially for other people. But, you know, the older I get, the more I know he's.

[B]

You know. I was going to say that, too. The older I get, and especially the older with the challenges that that age

[A]

is bringing, that the weaker we are,

[C]

the stronger we are.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. God makes Himself known through the imperfect vessels. Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered. O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

[A]

Sorry, I need to stop you again. And the judgments of his mouth is how? Or the judgments he utters. Psalm 82.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

The judgment against the fallen realm.

[B]

Right. Though you are gods, all of you sons of the most high, like men, you shall die.

[A]

That is a wonderful thing to remember.

[B]

Yeah. As he has already judge those fallen angels who want to destroy us and everything that we love.

[A]

And a reminder in what you just read in verse six that, hey, the children of Jacob, that would be Israel, because his name was changed to Israel. They're chosen.

[B]

Yeah, and we'll get that. Just a second here. I pulled up some information on the covenants. He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth. He remembers his covenant forever. The word that he commanded for a thousand generations. The covenant that and okay, here, number symbol doesn't mean literally 1000 generations. It means forever.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed, Jacob, as a statute to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying to you, I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.

[C]

Amen. Yes, Amen. That needs to be a song, right?

[B]

The covenants you had. If you want to consider the covenants with Noah, you know, in Genesis 9, putting the rainbow in the clouds. Okay. I'll never destroy earth by a flood again. But then you've got the patriarchal covenant to. To Abraham. Genesis 15, Genesis 17, I will make my covenant with you. When he was 99 years old, God made the covenant with. He was still Avraham at that point, not Abraham.

[C]

Yeah. The covenant, the first covenant with Abraham. Abraham cut. Covenant means to cut.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He cut this sacrifice into two halves, and the Lord passed beneath them. This is a picture of Christ.

[B]

Right.

[C]

That covenant was cut in the Lord's own blood.

[B]

Yes. Yeah. That was where he took a heifer, three years old, female goat, three years old, Ram, three years old, turtle of young, pigeon, cut them in half, and the Lord went between them. But this covenant is. Was unconditional.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

Now, there are those who say, well, you know, Joshua or Solomon fulfilled it. When Solomon expanded the borders of Israel from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates in the north.

[C]

Unconditional and forever.

[B]

Yeah. And of course, they were driven from the land. And then in Ezekiel 36, God said to Ezekiel that he would restore the people of Israel. Not because they deserved it, because they were still blaspheming his name amongst the nations, but he would bring them back for the sake of his holy name, not because the Jews deserved. Was for his reasons. And again, unconditional means. Israel could do whatever and God would still fulfill his part of the bargain. And he did. In 1948. That was the fulfillment. I know there are those who say, well, it was the Rothschilds, it was the Illuminati. They're not real Jews, they're Khazarians. Even if all of that's true, doesn't it? Which it's not. The Jewishness is not conferred by bloodline necessarily, because Jesus himself had Canaanite through Rahab, Moabite, through Ruth, in his bloodline. Those sojourners among the Jews who agreed to behave as a Jew and fulfilled the covenant, circumcision and all that were then considered Jews from there on.

[A]

Exactly. And we are grafted in.

[B]

And we are grafted in. Now there's the Davidic covenant, which was God's promise that there'd be an eternal reign through the descendants of David. That was also unconditional, which again fulfilled through Jesus. And when he returns to rule from Jerusalem, that will be bringing the king back to Jerusalem, as it were.

[A]

He will have a physical throne.

[B]

Right. Now, the covenant at Sinai, that was conditional. And clearly the Jews did break that covenant. God chastised them for that. But it did not nullify the promises made to Abraham. Because even after they broke the covenant, worshiping the golden calf, chasing after goat demons in the desert, God still said, okay, all right, time to go. Come on, you're going to come into Canaan, I'm going to give you the land. Now, God could have said, nope, you broke the covenant. Canaan is off the table. Now. He didn't. So those are the covenants that we're talking about here when we're dealing with. And of course, Jeremiah talks about the new covenant, and then Jesus has the new covenant in his blood.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

So, yeah, many covenants that were referred to here, and most of those yet in the future, at the time of David, the Jeremiah covenant and the, of course, the covenant that Jesus discussed on the night he was betrayed. He remembers his covenant forever. The word that he commanded for a thousand generations, the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying to you, I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance. When they were few in number, of little account and sojourners in it, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them. He rebuked kings on their account, saying, touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm. We've seen that verse used and applied in the present day, not always in a correct context. When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron, until what he had said came to pass. The word of Yahweh tested him. The king sent and released him. The ruler of the peoples set him free. He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom. Then Israel came to Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham, and Yahweh made his people very fruitful and made them stronger than their foes. He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants. He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of ham.

[C]

Yes, Mrs. G. Going back to verse 25. And he turned. This is Septuagint. And he turned their heart to hate his people. Speaking about the Egyptians. To deal craftily with his servants. I think that policy putting pressure upon the Jewish people has continued throughout history and we're seeing it again today.

[B]

Yeah. In fact, that's why in War of The Watchers, book one, I focused on the 19th century. And you made that such a key element of the Red Wing saga. Because it was the 19th century and the way Jews were treated to a degree in Europe, but especially in Russia.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

That forced them out of their dwellings, forced them out of their villages, and pushed them towards what became the land of Israel.

[C]

Yes, exactly. Those who want to say that pressure is because they're no longer chosen. You really need to reread your Bible.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. We people, we humans tend not to move unless we're compelled.

[C]

That is true.

[B]

Yeah. They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of. Hamlet. Verse 27. Sorry, verse 28. He sent darkness and he made the land dark. They did not rebel against his words. He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die. Their land swarmed with frogs. Even in the chambers of their kings he spoke. And there came swarms of flies and gnats throughout their country.

[A]

This says lice.

[B]

That's worse. He gave them hail for rain and fiery lightning bolts throughout their land.

[C]

Storm God.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

He's showing that he controls all of these elements. All of these, in many cases. These are entities.

[B]

Yes. Hail Barad, I believe. Yeah, a Canaanite demon. Lightning bolts. Clearly, that's the weapon of the storm God, baal.

[A]

He's shaming all of these entities.

[B]

Yeah. He struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. And of course, he's. Now he's talking about the late. What led up to the Exodus in Egypt. He spoke and the locusts came, young locusts without number, which devoured all the vegetation in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground. He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their strength. Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

[A]

Isn't that amazing? They were able to leave with bounty animals. I mean, because they weren't Harmed during all of this. And so they went door to door.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And got and collected food. And all of these things weren't to enrich them. I believe a lot of these things were used in the Tabernacle later.

[B]

Yes. Yes. Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon it. Here, take our stuff.

[C]

Just go.

[B]

He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light by night, they asked. And he brought quail, and he gave them bread from heaven in abundance. Manna is bread. Elsewhere in scripture is called bread of the angels.

[C]

Yeah. Panis Angelicus.

[B]

Yeah. He opened the rock and water gushed out. It flowed through the desert like a river.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Petra.

[C]

We really do believe that took place at Petra.

[B]

For he remembered his holy promise and Abraham his servant. So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing. And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the people's toil, that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise Yahweh.

[C]

Hallelujah.

[B]

Now, of course, they didn't keep his statutes and observe his laws, which is why they were carried off to Assyria, then carried off to Babylon, returned, and then scattered among the nations.

[C]

How are you doing? Time wars.

[B]

Well, we really should get Psalm 132 in here. We're at an hour. But we'll get Psalm 132 so that we'll.

[C]

Okay, let me just find that really quickly.

[B]

And it's relatively short.

[C]

Sorry.

[B]

And that will then get us back on schedule for next week when we get back to Isaiah.

[C]

This one is a song of a sense.

[B]

Which means going up to Jerusalem.

[C]

Exactly. Remember, O Yahweh, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured, how he swore to Yahweh and vowed to the Mighty

[A]

One of Jacob, I will not enter

[C]

my house or go into my bed.

[A]

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until

[C]

I find a place for Yahweh, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob. Jerusalem. Behold, we heard it in Ephratah, Bethlehem.

[A]

We found it in the fields of Yaar. Where are those?

[B]

Well, Septuagint says we found it in the thicket of the wood.

[C]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

Verse seven.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Let us go to his dwelling place. Let us worship at his footstool.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Until I make your.

[B]

Your enemies a footstool beneath your feet. Right. Psalm 110, verse one.

[C]

Mm.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, that is good.

[B]

The Septuagint says we will worship at the place where his feet Stood. Now, bear in mind this is written by David a thousand years before Jesus walked the earth.

[C]

Oh, my goodness.

[B]

Jerusalem is Eden.

[C]

Also, the Lord said that everywhere I place my foot is yours.

[B]

Well said. Every place that you. You place your foot.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

In Deuteronomy, that was the message to Moses and Joshua.

[C]

Yeah. And. And I. I think this is the representation of a footstool.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Now, I could be wrong on this, but these are giant enclosures in the shape of a sandal that Adam Sir Tall, the late Adam Sir Tall, discovered at a number of places and. Including Jerusalem.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. The old city of Jerusalem. When you include the city of David, it has the rough outline of what looks like a sandal.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Verse 8.

[C]

Arise, O Yahweh, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. This is. This is longing for the physical presence in Jerusalem.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness and let your saints shout for joy.

[A]

Now, does it say Kadashim?

[C]

Is it holy ones in when it says saints?

[B]

Well, I'll switch back to the esv.

[A]

Here I can look.

[C]

So holy ones, godly ones.

[A]

Hasid.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. As in Hasidim. Yeah. The pious ones.

[A]

Yes. Mind you, we are not.

[C]

Yeah, I don't think it means that.

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No, no, no, we are not.

[C]

Was I reading Psalm 132? 132, sorry.

[A]

I'm trying to figure out what verse I read because I went back and subtly.

[B]

That was verse nine.

[C]

Okay, thank you.

[A]

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Well, we are considered part of the divine assembly. I don't know that we would be considered priests because our king is a priest king. But any righteousness we have is his, is not ours. Let the priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy. Psalm 100, verse 10. For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Your messiah, Yahweh swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back.

[C]

One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne. If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies, that I shall teach them their sons also. Forever shall set sit on your throne. Now, this is a tricky one because you might look at this and go, oh, it does have a condition.

[B]

The physical sons of David, obviously, that line was cut off after Zedekiah.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

In the 6th century BC when Nebuchadnezzar carried him off to Babylon. But as God ordained it. Because God said, okay, Nebuchadnezzar is My servant.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

And so God chastising the Jews.

[C]

Don't pull verse 12 out as a proof text because verse 13 is there.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his dwelling place. This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell. For I have desired it.

[B]

In the Septuagint, it's very similar. For the Lord chose Zion. He selected it for a dwelling for himself. This is my place of repose for eternity of eternity.

[C]

Hallelujah.

[B]

Here I will dwell because I chose it.

[A]

Verse 15.

[C]

I will abundantly bless her provisions. I will satisfy her poor with bread. And I would say that this is probably. This is my body bread. The word her priests I will clothe with salvation. Mm, that, that, that. That does mean we're priests.

[A]

Because we are clothed in his, we

[B]

are closed with Yeshua.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

That's what the word is.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And her saints will shout for joy. Psalm 100.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

There I will make a horn to sprout for David. Horn represents rulership. I have prepared a lamp for my anointed, my Messiah. His enemies I will clothe with shame,

[C]

but on him his crown will shine. Hallelujah.

[B]

In the first century A.D. the. The Essenes, the Pharisees, maybe the Sadducees, they were looking for. But the Essenes and the Pharisees for sure were looking for the Messiah. They were looking for that son of David who would rise up and drive out the hated Romans. Even the disciples, though, in Acts chapter one were looking for that. Okay, you've returned from the dead. We now have an unkillable leader. Will you restore the kingdom to Israel now? And Jesus said, that's not for you to know the time and the season. And of course, then he was carried up into heaven again. That's in Acts chapter one. They were looking for a geopolitical military leader to fulfill this return of David. The horn that would spring up for David. Because David's descendants did not keep the covenant they had turned away. Kings like Amon and Manasseh were evil. They were worshiping the molech. Worshiping molech, I should say. But here the prophecy is that God will cause to spring up a horn for David rulership. And that was fulfilled in Jesus, just not the way the religious hierarchy in Jerusalem expected or wanted in the first century.

[C]

You know, that's still true today, that the timelines, the prophecy charts that we all have. It seems that the Lord, who is the Master, he is the Lord of hosts, Lord of armies, best general throughout eternity, and he is outmaneuvering the fallen realm again and again. And so what seems ambiguous in the Bible, in prophetic texts is intentionally obscure. And so we, as in the first century, that many of them missed it, miss that he came. We, however, have the Holy Spirit within us. That's a big difference. And the Holy Spirit is giving us eyes to see and ears to hear. And we are slowly seeing the landscape before us changing, but it's making sense. And that's why I say some of the charts we've had. You know what, Maybe it's actually this interpretation, maybe this is what we're going to see happen in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of the world. I'm just fascinated by it.

[B]

The geopolitical situation in the Middle east has really flipped over the last 18 months, I would say, but especially since the beginning of this year.

[C]

The Abraham Accords really threw me.

[A]

Well, I didn't expect that.

[B]

Yeah. And that, of course, began under Trump's first term, but it's continuing now with countries like what, Morocco just signing on to it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The UAE in Israel drawing close. It's was just revealed this past week that Netanyahu actually went to the United Arab Emirates and met with the emir. It's like, what?

[A]

And Israel helps to protect the uae? They've got installations there.

[B]

Yeah. IDF forces deployed there to operate the Iron Dome to protect the UAE from Iranian missiles. So, you know, those of us who look at Islam as one big conglomera, you know, some conglomerates is a big block. No, they've got the factions in Islam just as much as Jews have factions, Christians have factions and so on. And some of those factions in Islam are ethnic as much as anything else, or even more.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So Shia, Sunni factions within both of those groups. And then you've got, you know, Arabs who don't like Persians and vice versa, and Turks who don't like them, and Kurds and Yazidis and Turks don't like anybody. Yeah. They want to restore the caliphate, which is what the Muslim Brotherhood is all about. But of course, the Arabs don't want the caliphate in Istanbul, they want it at Mecca. So it's. Yeah, there's a whole lot going on there. But the UAE friendly now, apparently, with Israel and Israelis going to, you know, Abu Dhabi on vacation. We only went through the airport in Abu Dhabi on our last tour.

[A]

Beautiful airport.

[B]

And all we can see because it was night both times we went through. But my goodness, if Abu Dhabi of the country is anything like the airport. Whoa, Nelly.

[C]

It's beautiful. It shows what Gaza could have been. Yes, Gaza's on the Mediterranean. It's got a gorgeous view.

[B]

It does. It could have been the

[C]

Riviera of the Mediterranean.

[B]

Wonderful beaches, wonderful climate. It's like the climate's like San Diego. They. But instead they turned it into an armed camp because their interpretation of the God that they serve is the way Muhammad taught. And they just, they're just. Their only identity is not Israel.

[C]

They're a cult of death.

[B]

They are. And it's sad, but it's, you know, prophesied that there would be a day when sadly, that may be the hook in the jaw that draws the world to war against Israel. But because we've seen. Despite the fact that when you actually look at the facts of what has been happening there over the last two and a half years and the history of what's happened in that region since the late 19th century, it is not the narrative that has been propagated through our schools or through our corporate media. The world is buying it and the world is turning against Israel. Young people here in the United States majority now turning against Israel because they're getting their information from social media. And when you see the images of the areas that have been hit by bombs, that's one thing. What we're not seeing are the social media accounts that I follow where they just had a 5k fun run in Gaza.

[C]

I know.

[B]

And they've had, you know. Well, we could go on and on.

[C]

It's entirely different.

[B]

It's entirely different. Reality is not what the way it's being spun on social media.

[C]

Right. And by the way, we just slightly PID radio. The World Health Organization is having a big meeting right now in Switzerland and it has to do with social media and disinformation and our children being propagandized. I find that ironic given that, you know, the left had been propaganda. You know, they've been using propaganda for a long time. This is, I think the beginning of the info demic that will be declared.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Giving the World Health Organization aegis over the whole world except for those countries that have pulled out. That would be.

[B]

That would be us. Yeah. The. You really have to dig into a lot of different news sources in order to get sort of triangulation on the truth. The powers that be, including the World Health Organization, which claims the right to enforce or police infodemics. They don't want us doing that.

[C]

No.

[B]

They only want us getting our information from approved sources, which of course would be.

[C]

Yeah, the. The Ministry of truth from Orwell's 1984. It's not truth. It's the opposite.

[B]

Yeah. And it is. Well, it's. It's getting more and more difficult. That's why we encourage you to look at alternative source and get our app because we can share information directly through our app that's not policed.

[A]

And follow us on substack.

[B]

Follow us on substack. And we got a couple of substack accounts. You were sharing your red wing saga, but also starting on the Laodicea Chronicles.

[A]

Yes, and I apologize. I meant to get out a couple of other chapters yesterday and I got distracted by a shiny object, which meant going into crane and doing other things around the house.

[B]

I try to work ahead. I schedule them to be released weeks in advance.

[A]

I need to do that. I really do. Maybe I'll do that. Work on that while we're in spite of Springfield.

[B]

The next couple of days we'll talk about that.

[A]

And that takes us to the OG Report.

[B]

The OG Report. Well, let's jump right to that. We will be in Springfield from this evening through Tuesday midday probably because as we mentioned last week some an abnormal protein was found in my blood. Some blood work that was ordered by the nurse practitioner at my neurologist office. And God bless again. God bless nurse practitioners. Thank you nurse practitioner Morgan.

[C]

Thank you nurses. Thank you nurse practitioners. I mean you health care workers, you work hard.

[B]

Yes. And it was because she thought, you know, she's looking at my neurological symptoms which diagnosed as cidp, which is a long term. An acronym for a long term that means my immune system is attacking the nerves in my extremities. So my feet are mostly numb and paralyzed. My hands now are going that way. My right hand is worse than my left. You look at my hands, they look really, really bony because the areas between the bones that should be filled with muscle are no longer filled with muscle.

[C]

Between your thumb and forefinger.

[B]

Yeah, there's a real hollow in there. It's like where did that come from? Because this condition, cidp not only attacks nerves, it causes muscle wasting in the extremities. So she thought this might be something else called amyloidosis, which can manifest with similar symptoms. And so she did the blood test, long story short, that referred me to hematology oncology, or as the medical professionals call it, heem onc. And the doctor there wanted some additional testing. Did a 24 hour urine collection last weekend. Turn that in. Test results revealed the presence of a protein that didn't really tell us anything except they need more testing. Well, that's why we're going to Springfield Tomorrow, Today. Because early tomorrow morning I'll be at the hospital getting a bone marrow biopsy.

[A]

Yeah, I prefer not to have to

[C]

leave home at 4:30 or 5 in the morning. It's easier.

[A]

We just. We're getting old. I don't like to have to drive that at night.

[C]

So we stay at the hotel.

[A]

It's just much easier.

[B]

Yeah, there's a hotel directly across the street from the hospital. So we can get up fairly close to the time that we have to be there. And so they'll knock me out, take a sample of my bone marrow, and then later this coming week we should have some results there that will identify things. Now, I will say again that the neurologist, or rather the hematologist oncologist, said he doesn't expect the test to reveal anything alarming, but he just wants to rule things out and that is the

[C]

smart thing to do.

[B]

So if they rule things out and this turns out to be what they call MGUs, which is monogamopathy of unknown source, Learning all these acronyms, that's good news because the other potential diagnoses could be multiple myeloma, which is a bone cancer. But 70 to 80% of the time, according to what I've read about this particular protein found in the urine. It's nothing.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Just needs to be watched. Well, that'd be great, but it doesn't get us any closer to figuring out why I'm having the neurological issues.

[C]

No. But I will say again, I will say again, you are in the Lord's hands.

[B]

Yeah. And.

[C]

And at the very least, he has spared your brain. And you have learned to use text to speech very efficiently and it has allowed you to continue writing.

[B]

Yeah. And if it wasn't for the neurological things going back to October of 24, that I would not have been sent out for the vascular tests that discovered the abdominal aneurysm that needed to be corrected because that has no symptoms. And if it had burst, it would more than likely I would not have survived the trip to the hospital.

[C]

That is absolutely true.

[B]

So all of this is set a chain of events in motion. Yes. As you know, our home is on the market. We've got a contingent contract on it. We're hoping and, you know, praying that the buyer's home will sell. It is now officially on the market as of this week, and it is a wonderful young couple who would use the barn for kingdom work for our king for ministry.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And so we would truly, truly love to see them make this purchase. I mean, you know, it's there are others who could come along and use the barn for auto repair for a man cave, whatever. But, but to be able to use it for the king is that means a lot. Yeah. And so we are praying for that

[A]

and we so yeah, please pray that their home sells.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They have put in a contingent contract on our place, but they need to sell their house. They, they've got it all fixed up. They put it on the market. So it's been in the market for a little better.

[B]

Just a week. Yeah.

[A]

Please pray that they are able to sell. That would be really wonderful.

[B]

Yep. So that is the the OG report for this week. We got time for one quick question here.

[A]

Oh yay.

[B]

Well, let's see here. Kelly asks I have a question regarding to eat related to evil spirits. In 1st Samuel 16:14 it states that quote, an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him. End quote. Talking about King Saul because the spirit of the Lord left him and God sent an evil spirit. I don't understand why God would send an evil spirit on Saul. I know he turned away from God, but does God send evil spirits on people? Thank you for your awesome Bible studies. God bless you. And Derek, this question addressed to you. 1st Samuel 16:14. Let me bring that up because I'm not sure the word translated evil always means evil.

[C]

Yeah, I was thinking it actually, actually was a different kind of spirit, but it might be. Let me look in the Septuagint ESV

[B]

says now the spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and a harmful spirit from Yahweh tormented him.

[C]

Yeah. What is that the address again?

[B]

1st Samuel 16:14 Let me, let me find it.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Harmful translators Notes from the New English translation. You said 1614, right? The translators from the new English translation. And this is why we like the Net Bible, because the translators offered their notes to explain why certain verses were translated certain ways. The Hebrew can mean harmful or injurious spirit.

[C]

Septuagint says evil.

[B]

Yeah. Translators notes the phrase need not refer to an evil demonic spirit. The Hebrew word translated evil may refer to the character of the spirit or to its effect upon Saul. If the latter, another translation option might be a mischief making spirit. In other words, similar to the 1 in 1st Kings 22 where the prophet Micaiah relates what he saw in the throne room of God, where God asks the court the divine council, how are we going to convince Ahab to go into battle? And the spirit says one thing and another one says another and finally one says, I'll go be a lying spirit.

[C]

Yes Let. Let me read in the Septuagint. Just give context for this because it's really interesting. Bear in mind that David has already been anointed. So what we get is, and the

[A]

spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord told, tormented him. And Saul's servants said to him, behold, now an evil spirit from the Lord torments thee. Let now thy servants speak before thee, and let them seek for our Lord a man skilled to play on the harp. And it shall come to pass when an evil spirit comes upon thee. And he shall play on his harp, that thou shalt be well, and he shall refresh thee. And Saul said to his servants, and look now out for me, a skillful player, and bring him to me. And one of his servants answered and said, behold, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite, and he understands playing on the harp. And the man is prudent and a warrior and wise in speech. And the man is handsome, and the Lord is with him. This forced Saul into bringing David into court, right?

[B]

Oh, yes.

[A]

And the Lord had a plan. It was part of God's plans. Don't always go the way we expect them to.

[B]

Right.

[A]

For instance, the Lord is allowing this illness to debilitate you, but he has spared your brain, which astonishes all your doctors.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he has left you with the ability to write the book he's called you to write. If you had all of your abilities back, you might not be sitting in the big red chair as many hours as you do doing research and writing.

[B]

That. That is true. Yeah, that is true.

[C]

It's a good question.

[B]

So, yes, thank you, Kelly, for that question. So again, we see the word, and we assume that it means what it apparently means in English, but I think the better understanding is the effect that it had on Saul. The spirit was not evil in and of itself, but God tormented Saul, which then compelled him to bring David to court, which was God's plan.

[C]

And interesting that the first step was removing the Holy Spirit.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because the Holy Spirit was sealing Saul, preventing anything from getting at him. So I'm going to lift my hand off of him and allow this, because I'm working all things together for good.

[B]

The Lord would say, yeah, yeah, that's a really good question. I've seen things like that, too. And there are other analyses of Scripture and commentaries on scripture that I think incorrectly begin with. Well, I don't think God would. It's like, no, no, what you're saying is I wouldn't do it that way. So God must not have done it that way.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And it kind of gets back to, you know, the way God brought the people back to Israel in 1948. Well, I wouldn't have done it that way. So it can't be of God.

[C]

Right. When in Psalm 23, when the shepherd leads us uphill into a dangerous place.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Can we go back to the really nice grass and the still clear water?

[B]

Can we go back to Egypt? At least we had meat in our pots.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Well, got a few events to tell folks about, including a new one, actually. Oh, one new one in a lizard, we should say. I have been honored to be asked to take part in a Christian symposium on UFOs and alien abductions. And this is going to be broadcast from Roswell, New Mexico. Our good friends, Guy Malone and Joe Jordan, alien resistance.com and ce4research.com I'm going to add this to our app so people can, you know, see what this is all about. There's going to be an in person event in Roswell where Joe and Guy, along with Jackie Elnor.

[A]

Oh, wonderful.

[B]

Whom we met at the Prophecy Watchers conference a couple of years back for the first time. But she's been a guest on A View from the Bunker a couple of times now. She is a. An apologist and really good theologian. She and her husband Bill Alnor had been doing this for a long time. And we're early on in the study of the UFO phenomenon and what it means and how it could be used as a deception. With the UFO flap kind of going viral again here recently, Joe and Guy, even before that, had set up this event as part of the annual UFO Festival in Roswell. It's going to be Thursday, July 2, beginning at 3pm Central Time and it will go from 3 until 8. And besides Joe, Guy and Jackie, Bruce Collins, who is back podcasting again. Back. He was early on doing podcasts back in the day, the Bruce Collins show. And he had to step away for a while. His mother had gotten ill and he was caring for her. He is back podcasting again. He will be live streaming to his YouTube channel. Why? We will be live streaming to our YouTube channel. We will be taking questions both in advance and live during that event on July 2nd. But Bruce and I need to test out our theory as to how we can live stream to two separate YouTube channels and X accounts at the same time.

[C]

Well, you can work on that.

[B]

Yeah. Well, that's going to be Thursday afternoon at 2:00pm okay, so.

[C]

So you're going to send out if you hit the notification Bell on our YouTube channel.

[B]

Right. Which is at Gilbert House, then you'll get notifications, be notified. And there are already people who say it, that they're waiting for it, so.

[C]

Oh, wonderful.

[B]

But this will be a trial run. There'll be nothing fancy, just Bruce and Bruce and I just blathering for a while.

[C]

That could be interesting.

[B]

Yeah. Bruce said, you know, it's surprised, but you never, you were never on my program. I said, well, we can just market this then as an event so big it was 20 years in the making. So anyway, this coming Thursday afternoon at 2:00pm, if you're interested, Bruce and I will be doing a test.

[C]

The big Joe Horn voice.

[B]

That's right. I said, you need. We need in a world. So we'll be doing that probably maybe 30 minutes, maybe a little longer, depending on how long we feel like blathering. But we just want to make sure we've got the logistics set up that we can actually do this. And, and I think we can. It'll certainly go out live to YouTube and X. Facebook wants to send it out as a private event. I'm not sure why it's doing that. We'll figure that out. But the, the main thing will happen on July 2, and I'll be sitting probably here in the big red chair while those guys are all in Roswell.

[C]

There you go.

[B]

So, but if you've got questions, you're in advance that you want addressed about UFO phenomenon or fallen angels or alien abductions or contact, whatever, send those to infoilberthouse.org then later in July, the go there for conference. We will be at the Harvest Revival Center. Slow down when I get excited. July 24th and 25th, wonderful gathering. Carl Gallups, Carl Tygrib, John Heller, Dr. Greg Reed, Tom Hughes, Olivier Melnick, and of course, Dr. Mike Spalding, author of the new book Replacement Theology. Please come out because it's a great facility and it's a wonderful gathering of good friends. Just a chance to get together and be reminded that even in the natural realm, you are not alone.

[A]

That is so true. That is so, so true.

[B]

Yeah. If you can't be there, live streaming is available and they do a great job with their livestream information. And registration [e-mail] and then in August, two weeks later, August 7th through 9th, the remnant rising 2.0 conference. And you can save $20 in person registration with the promo code Gilbert20. It's at the Oasis Hotel and Convention center in Springfield. And wonderful gathering there.

[C]

Well, yeah, use Gilbert 20. Save your $20. That. That's buying a breakfast. It's buying some donuts over Hertz donut. It can go toward admission into the world of gosh. What's it called?

[B]

Wonders. Wonders of wildlife.

[C]

Wonders of wildlife.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Where you can swim with sharks.

[B]

If you want to swim with sharks. Pet the rays as they swim around in a tank. They are so soft, like the softest kid leather that you could imagine. Just amazing. What amazing creatures. And it's not just fish. They've also got areas that, where they've got. They've got alligators, they've got owls. It's. It's an incredible, incredible setup. Been voted the best aquarium in America three years running. That's USA Today.

[C]

Yep. You can also go down to Branson, bring your kids. If you live close enough that you can drive or, you know, if you want to. Everybody fly. There is a shuttle from the airport in Springfield over to the hotel.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Or you can rent a car.

[B]

Rent a car. And that will give you the opportunity to travel around and see things. This is a. Actually an open door safari park in the north side of Springfield too.

[C]

You're kidding. I didn't know that.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Not too far from the Silver Dollar City. Silver Dollar City, a wonderful amusement park. It's not like a typical Six Flags or anything like that. It's. It's very much in tune with the Ozarks. A lot of craftsmen working on there. A lot of acoustic music. It's wonderful.

[C]

Yeah, it is really cool. Plus, there are rides for the kids.

[B]

Yeah, absolutely. Speakers Joe Horn of Skywatch tv, of course, you and me. Jamie Walden, Vicky Joy Anderson, Tracy Tennant, Kenny C. Tony Merkel, host of the Confessionals podcast. John Pounders, host of now you see tv. Dave Hodges, host of the Common Sense show.

[C]

Kenny C. I love Dave.

[B]

He is one of the smartest guys we know.

[C]

He truly is Kenny C. And he's

[B]

been going through some physical stuff too.

[C]

So let's pray that the Lord heals him and he's able to come.

[B]

Yep. And praise and worship music from our friends Gerard James and Sarah Weiss. We got to know them last August and wonderful couple and just on fire for the Lord. Looking forward to seeing them again.

[C]

Indeed they are.

[B]

So more information and registration for in person or streaming [e-mail] yes, we are going to Israel. We are October 11th through 23rd with an optional three day extension over to Jordan. Prophecy watchers, guys, they are going right after us. So it looks like Israel. In fact, we have been told by our friends in Israel, and not just the tour guide people, but friends in Israel, that things are opening up now. Israel is essentially back to normal. They recover so quickly from things like the conflict with Iran. It has been. It's almost hard to remember now. It's been almost a couple of months since Iran has flung anything at Israel.

[C]

And we've said this before. I feel perfectly safe in Israel all the time.

[B]

We have never, never felt unsafe.

[C]

We were there standing and looking into Gaza. We felt completely safe. And there were explosives, explosions going on. Well, yeah, but it was the good guys, right?

[B]

Right.

[C]

It was Israel.

[B]

We've been on Mount Bental looking into Syria.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

We've been so far north. We're looking. Okay, across that bridge there. That's Syria. Right over there, that's Lebanon.

[A]

Gilgal, Rafaim, very close.

[B]

Yeah. Five miles from the Syrian border.

[A]

When we were in Metula, we were a stone's throw from Lebanon.

[B]

Yeah. Literally. Literally, yeah. Just the other side of the valley there. And our tour guide, with his sense of humor, see that white van? Hezbollah. What? And then we see the UN sign on the side. So we have never felt, even in those places, like we were not secure. And Lipkin Tours would never take us anywhere where things were not secure.

[A]

Trust me, it is a tour you will never forget and you will make friends for life.

[B]

And when you. Because we've been on the Temple Mount now, what, four times. And every time you go there and you realize this is the place where Jesus walked, confronted the religious authorities, where the apostles were confronted by the religious authorities, and where he will ultimately reign someday. It really is powerful. And the older you get. You saw me last October. There were several places where I was just overwhelmed. Out on the Sea of Galilee. I just broke down and started a weed.

[C]

Well, I think because of your health issues, each opportunity to go to Israel, we think, okay, Lord, depending upon what your plan is for our lives, this might be our last one. So, I don't know. This could be our last trip to Israel. We're going to go as long as the Lord allows it. And it's tougher going, you know, for us. But the Lipkins are going to provide you with a wheeled vehicle so I can walk and you get to ride.

[B]

And as we go through this year, because the prednisone treatment doesn't seem to be doing anything at this point. But that's what the insurance company wanted me to endure. Well, not endure to go through first to prove that it was not effective before they approved the because it's cheap. The infusion therapy, because it is cheap. Prednisone is cheap and the infusions are not. But one way or the other, we don't make it. I'll keep working on the bike to keep my legs built up and try to build up, you know, cardio. And if the infusions then take over and start to reverse the symptoms of what I got, that would be wonderful. Right. Maybe I won't need a wheelie.

[C]

Wouldn't it be interesting if you finish this, what looks like it's going to be a three book set the word.

[B]

We were talking about that this morning.

[C]

Yeah, I've thought for weeks now it's

[A]

going to have a third book. But once you finish that, wouldn't it be interesting if you get entirely better?

[B]

That would be very interesting. Yeah.

[A]

We'll see what the Lord's plan is. His plans are always the best.

[B]

Well, again, a lot of things in motion here that seem to have been kicked off well even before all this. Just. Yeah. When you're in the middle of it and you start turn around looking back, saying, now I understand why that happened.

[A]

Oh, wow, it is. It's when you're climbing up that hill and then you get to the crest and you see the beautiful place you've been taken, then you turn around and you look at your journey and you see why he took you that way. Speaking of blather, which we mentioned a few minutes ago, there are a few of you and we just want to say thank you. A few of you who have time stamped. If you want to get to the meat of the thing, here's the time stamp. I just want to tell you that does not bother us in the least. No, no, we understand completely and we want to thank you for taking the time to figure that out and for posting it for others.

[B]

Right, that's on YouTube if you want to follow that along. There's a one particular person and you know, God bless you doesn't. Doesn't offend us at all.

[C]

I love it.

[B]

We, we've done this kind of blather since we started podcasting back in 2005.

[C]

We don't know another way.

[B]

This is how we roll and occasionally we'll get some people who will, you know, comment on new people who followed, you know, discovered PID radio. Why, what's it. Let's useless talk for the first 10 minutes.

[C]

That's the way we've always done it.

[B]

Yeah. This is us conversation.

[C]

It's Neil Shaw and it's an account we Love. I love to follow on YouTube, it's royal reporting and also political stuff. And. And he will talk about the weather and just the economy and just a variety of things. Sometimes he just reminisces and says things like, remember bov? Do any of you still use bov? I mean, you know, it's been around for over a hundred years and. And do you like it? If you like Bavarian, tell me in the comments. Because, you know, I. I like it. I sometimes I just like to put it on a piece of toast and so it made me look up Bovril. I like his, but he said many of you say you talk too much at the beginning. Get to the meat. I love his stuff.

[B]

Yeah. And that's, again, that's kind of how we are. The older you get, the more you appreciate just sitting and talking.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So. But again, if you want to dive right into the studies, there is somebody who's going through our YouTube studies and timestamping those in the comments. So if you want to look for those, God bless you. Yeah. Because, yeah, some of these comments now are like 15 years old. So when did, when did we. We started in 2011. So, yeah, we're going on 15 years. This is year 15.

[C]

Wow. We started in 2011.

[B]

Yeah. Nine. 11. Oh, wait, no, it's 2014. 2014.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So 11 years.

[C]

But we've been.

[B]

I'm so old I can't even do that.

[C]

We've been podcasting since March 5th of 2005, so there's a whole lot of blather out there for AIs to train on. Soon AIs are just going to be hallucinating and blathering back and forth.

[B]

You go back to yesterday's PID radio that maybe that's what's driving the GROK agents crazy. They were the ones self destructed after four days.

[C]

That's probably it.

[B]

Oh, well. Well, we'll close with a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for bringing us together over your word and for the joy which can fill our hearts even in the midst of minor, minor trials. As we look at the world around us today, there are so many dealing with so much more. So, Father, we pray for your spirit to fill us and to fill us with the desire to share the hope that we have in you with those around us, our family members and our friends, our colleagues, our co workers, always doing so with a sense of gentleness and respect, as the apostle Peter wrote. Because, Father, we know that if we approach others with a spirit of anger, demanding to know why they haven't made a decision yet. Threatening them with hellfire and damnation as an opening line, Father, that will cause people to shut down and turn away. Grant us the wisdom to not become stumbling blocks between you and those who need you. Lord, may we be good ambassadors for you, our king. May we represent your kingdom with the reverence that you deserve. May we remember, Father, that those who may respond in anger on social media or even in person are not angry at us. It is because they are rejecting you, Father, as those you encountered in the flesh rejected you 2,000 years ago. Father, we pray for peace in this world. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for the safety and security of our friends there. But around the world, Father, we see nation rising against nation, ethnos against ethnos. We pray for peace, Lord, knowing that true peace will not come until you return. In the meanwhile, Father, may we be as you commanded your disciples, as gentle as doves, yet as wise as serpents, seeing and discerning the spirits in the times around us. We pray for your blessing, Father. We pray for those in elected office of all parties. Lord, may your spirit guide them and help us to remember that whatever happens, Lord, it is all part of your grand design, of which we see only a small, small part. Lord, we know that things will be done according to your will. Help us to remember that who reigns in our houses is more important than who sits in the White House. Father, we pray for your blessing and we give thanks for this day. In Jesus name. Amen.

[C]

Amen.

[A]

Amen.

[C]

That's a good point.

[B]

I wish it was original to me. There's a young man named. Oh gosh. Abraham. Oh, gosh, I'm forgetting. He's the attorney for American Family Association. Anyway, he does a daily live feed on YouTube and that's how he closed. Remember, what happens inside your house is more important than what happens inside the White House.

[C]

That is so true.

[B]

And I think perhaps modifying it. Who reigns in our house is more important.

[A]

Choose you this day whom you will serve.

[B]

Yes. As for me in my house, until next time, I'm Derek Gilbert.

[A]

I'm Sharon Gilbert. We love you.

[C]

The Lord loves you so very much. Bye bye, everybody.

[B]

Thank you for joining us. We post a new Bible study each Sunday morning, subscribe to the podcast and explore the archives [e-mail].

[A]

Dance.